POLL: Obama Worst Modern-Day Presidenthttp://www.businessinsider.com/poll-barack-obama-worst-modern-day-president-2014-7/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:55:02 -0400Colin Campbellhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53c894286bb3f79d62d9ab09mattymathThu, 17 Jul 2014 23:27:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53c894286bb3f79d62d9ab09
It's the president's job to unite the country and Congress behind him. It's his job to build coalitions. Every other president in history could do it. He's the first that couldn't. He would be a great cult leader, but he can't lead anything else.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53c6ac3c6bb3f79a75259bc6Lew Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:45:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53c6ac3c6bb3f79a75259bc6
THANK YOU!! Its refreshing to know that someone is educated enought to realize that Pres Obama has had to deal with all the incompetent decisions Bush made which drove this nations economy to the ground.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bdef5869bedd3923643c40Kelly CloverWed, 09 Jul 2014 21:41:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bdef5869bedd3923643c40
Obama just doesn't get it. Now is an extremely wrong time for him to be so heavily focused on fundraising to help his Democratic friends in Congress or elsewhere. Israel currently faces what could be an all out war with Hamas with its very existence threatened. The massive influx of children from Central America has created a big crisis that immigration authorities cannot handle. Obama's priorities are badly skewed. He should be focusing far more attention on solving these problems, not political parties and fundraising from the wealthy and special interests.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b59836ecad043b6d29f2b3Bill ClaytonThu, 03 Jul 2014 13:51:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b59836ecad043b6d29f2b3
Barack Obama is one of the best presidents we've had. He never got a real chance to do what he was capable of doing -- Republican obstruction made sure of that. Despite all of that obstruction, he got a LOT done. Read through some of these: (<a href="http://on.fb.me/1o4WEVo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://on.fb.me/1o4WEVo</a>) Furthermore, Reagan was one of the worst... deregulation, Star Wars, Iran-Contra, HUD rigging scandal, lobbying scandal, EPA scandal, the Savings & Loan crisis, ... on and on... Obama is superb; Reagan was pitifulhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b5929269bedd9b3b29f2b5Saint TannThu, 03 Jul 2014 13:27:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b5929269bedd9b3b29f2b5
Obama is the worst President of all time. And the most hated Muslim of all time. Also the most hated black person of all time.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4dbe5eab8ea7e11331821gococksriThu, 03 Jul 2014 00:28:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4dbe5eab8ea7e11331821
Meanwhile, the latest poll shows that the 113th Congress is, indeed, considered not only by historians but also by the general public to be "the worst in American history." Furthermore, only 7% of the American public expressed any confidence in it. When that is broken down further, we find that "approvals" for congressional Republicans are at a hefty 8%---lower than both Satan and the Ebola Virus. "Approvals" for congressional Democrats were only 17% but, hey, that's not 8%. Worse for Republicans is the fact that 58% of those polled felt that Democrats were better equipped to deal with the economy and that, two years out, 59% thought they would feel "more confident" with another Democratic president elected in 2016.
History judges presidents, not Baggers. When history deals with George Bush, the results will not be pretty---lying the country into a never-ending war, decimating the economy and, along with it, the American middle- and working-classes, etc., etc.
Barack Obama will be remembered for restoring the markets after the debacle of the Bush years and beginning the move toward universal healthcare. He will also be remembered as the president whose plans to bring American infrastructure and American scientific research and American environmental policies into the 21st-century were blocked by the "three worst Congresses in American history."
But, he will have set the table for Hillary to begin a program of 21st-century progress in 2016. Because, by then, the little group of white people in the Tea Party pup tent will have been overwhelmed by a coalition of, well, everybody else in the country. And we can get this country moving again.
As for now, keep the crazy coming, boys and girls. Though the fish are biting a bit better on the Congaree, I still love sitting on my dock and reading your stream of unmedicated blather---it's funnier than Blazing Saddles.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4a08f69beddeb19e18534S. FuchsWed, 02 Jul 2014 20:15:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4a08f69beddeb19e18534
This poll has already been proven worthless and inaccurate. Take a look at how it was evaluated. <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jun/29/bob-goodlatte/gop-leader-supreme-court-has-ruled-13-times-obama-/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jun/29/bob-goodlatte/gop-leader-supreme-court-has-ruled-13-times-obama-/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b48edeecad040065d8477cmicheal derryWed, 02 Jul 2014 18:59:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b48edeecad040065d8477c
They were lied to just like you lying by omission!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b48b2d6bb3f79a358c2a5dmicheal derryWed, 02 Jul 2014 18:43:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b48b2d6bb3f79a358c2a5d
Hello My Fellow Americans,
Here’s a little truth that I would like to share with all of you (especially all you Obama haters.
Busy Obama, Lazy Congress
By: Robert Brustein
Since his presidency began, and as of June 14, 2014, President Barack Obama will have made 36 international trips to 47 different countries, in addition to the Vatican and the West Bank. This, in addition to his frequent visits to domestic sites such as tornado and hurricane disaster areas, not to mention such institutions as the West Point Academy, Andrews Air Force Base, the Worcester Technical High School, and local bars and restaurants, makes him the busiest president in American history.
By contrast, the 111th Congress may be the laziest political body in American history. For the past six years, it has been composed of no-accounts who collect huge sums from the government (not to mention free handouts from large corporations and wealthy businessmen) without doing any work besides campaigning for their second term. This Congressional session will break records for the number of bills it has not passed, the presidential appointments it has not approved, the political advances it has tried to reverse. No wonder Obama is now governing largely by executive order. The shiftless good-for-nothings in the House often don't even show up for their jobs, letting their empty seats collect dust, while tooling around in federally-financed limos blaring Church music through open windows.
As for the Senate, its main activity now is filibustering. Filibuster is a term derived from the Spanish "filibustero" (or privateer, pirate, robber) -- in other words, a kind of black market verbosity that substitutes for persuasive speechifying. Americans did not work all their lives to see their hard-earned tax dollars lining the pockets of political rappers, or providing free tea to the Mad Hatters on the Hill. Like a lot of law-abiding taxpayers, I don't think these welfare cheats should be supported any longer by honest, patriotic Americans. I realize this may sound like racism, but when you compare President Obama's dedicated example with the parasitical weakness of the 111th mostly-white Congress, you begin to wonder whether Caucasians still have the energy to tote that barge or lift that bale.
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-brustein/busy-obama-lazy-congress_b_5488911.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-brustein/busy-obama-lazy-congress_b_5488911.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592</a>.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b48aef6da811145ce3ac7aGOP took it to a whole new levelWed, 02 Jul 2014 18:42:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b48aef6da811145ce3ac7a
Yes, of course. But that's no excuse for using a tortured rendition of Senate rules to turn every vote into a supermajority. It's no excuse for automatically being against everything Obama says, even when it's entirely in line with what the GOP previously professed as its own position, and which Obama offered in the hope that the GOP would recognize it as the compromise that it was (i.e. the individual mandate in the ACA). It's no excuse for making their top goal "to make this President a one term President" (their actual goal as elected representatives is to uphold and defend the Constitution, and second, to serve their constituents). It's no excuse for shutting down the government. It's no excuse for blatantly lying about Obama being a big spender even as the record-crushing deficit he inherited - FROM THE GOP, THE MOST FRIVOLOUSLY SPENDING PARTY IN HISTORY - gets cut in half by his policies.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4820069bedd8379e18530Salva VeritateWed, 02 Jul 2014 18:04:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4820069bedd8379e18530
He has been an absolute FAILURE !http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b479fe69beddfa48e18530The Party of DestroitWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:30:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b479fe69beddfa48e18530
Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry all voted for the invasion.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b476c76bb3f7e06d8c2a5aThe Party of DestroitWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:16:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b476c76bb3f7e06d8c2a5a
Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry all voted for the war. Your memory is as short as a mouse.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b47631ecad04a503d8477cHamsterWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:14:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b47631ecad04a503d8477c
Good albeit incomplete data and wrong conclusion. I believe the correct hypothesis should have been, "Is the current lame duck President always considered the worst President ever?"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b475b6eab8eaae17331822The Party of DestroitWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:12:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b475b6eab8eaae17331822
They were selected by WE THE PEOPLE to block Obama's agenda. Is that clear?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b475b069bedd702fe18530calltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:12:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b475b069bedd702fe18530
do you have a republican that polls higher? take your time...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b473eeecad04287ad8477ecalltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:04:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b473eeecad04287ad8477e
and you one hell of a right wing propagandist sucker.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4739aeab8ea620733181fcalltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:03:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4739aeab8ea620733181f
that's exactly correct. right wing hacks project their deceptive and conniving ways on the president.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b472f3ecad041875d8477ccalltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 17:00:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b472f3ecad041875d8477c
of course obama has been successful. what country are you living in? i bet you've missed the whole market run investing in apocalypses seeds. lol fools.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4723a6bb3f7eb568c2a5fcalltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 16:57:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4723a6bb3f7eb568c2a5f
thank god for obama. if mitty the mormon outsourcer got elected, we would still be in the second great depression.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b471c96da811af67e3ac82calltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 16:55:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b471c96da811af67e3ac82
does that mean that president obama won't get elected for a third term? bwahahaha! fools.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b471766bb3f78d578c2a61calltoactionWed, 02 Jul 2014 16:54:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b471766bb3f78d578c2a61
BWAHAHA!! find me ONE republican that polls higher! BWAHAHAHA. jokes on you!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b464d4eab8ea1e5933181fpatchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 16:00:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b464d4eab8ea1e5933181f
"Or the 'collateral damage' of 2400+ from drone strikes?"
The issue of drone strikes without the permission of sovereign nations is a legitimate one.
But were you concerned about collateral damage re the mess that Bush started in Iraq? (actually I blame the crazed neocons surrounding Bush more than Bush himself) Why I got this feeling you supported that idiotic Iraq war and pasted yellow ribbons all over your cars?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b457ff6bb3f7c5748c2a5ccherrychewWed, 02 Jul 2014 15:05:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b457ff6bb3f7c5748c2a5c
Here's the problem, the average, broke ass, desperate for a savior American voters goes to the polls with dreams of Shangri-La. And when their delusions aren't met, they turn against the president.
And who took this poll. Poor white Americans mad that Obama didn't give them a white entitled bubble. Yeah! But you had one under W Bush and look what happened at the end of the day. You got capital "F" fucked!
Sorry but the economy has rebounded, sophomorically speaking, back to what makes economic sense.
There also xenophobia and other shit but I'm not going to get into all that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b456fe6bb3f742778c2a5abob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:01:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b456fe6bb3f742778c2a5a
He lost the popular vote in 2000 and baaaaarely squeaked out the popular vote in 2004 (+3M diff in 2004 vs a +5M diff in 2012 for Obama).
da mihi, sed cigar [now give me my cigar] - Lucius Junius Brutushttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b451c5eab8eafa1133181fnot even close...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:39:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b451c5eab8eafa1133181f
my memory is a little hazy Crassus…wasn't W elected twice?
……………no cigar for you!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4508669bedd0c6ee18530AlexandraWed, 02 Jul 2014 14:33:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4508669bedd0c6ee18530
Per the crosstabs in the link of the article those polled skewed heavily to the South and Midwest (61%), no college degree (66%), 73% white.
Not a sample of America. Not surprised.
<a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us07022014_crosstabs_U73jabn.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us07022014_crosstabs_U73jabn.pdf</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b450296da811b749e3ac7dUmm.Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:32:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b450296da811b749e3ac7d
To the downvoters:
I know you hate facts, but you have to deal with them anyway.
Source: <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b44c2e6bb3f76e498c2a5akellydorsey8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:15:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b44c2e6bb3f76e498c2a5a
Bush missed blaming his "global financial meltdown" on the elected black guy by only six WEEKS in his eight years.
The Wall Street $trillion "too big to fail" bailouts - like the Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. wars and debt - were SIGNED and COMMITTED by Bush/Cheney - then left for America and their honestly elected President to pay for over MANY years..
The 8 year Bush disaster is so OBVIOUS to our allies that they awarded Obama the Nobel Peace Prize just for a few MONTHS of NOT BEING Bush/Cheney.
Should Obama have started more oil wars? More WMD wars? Which Libya, Syria, .. wars? Which of you, (y)our sons have volunteered or voted for more wars?
One can wish average Americans studied for higher math scores, higher science scores, and higher incomes. Americans with health and affordable healthcare may accomplish this.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b448706da811d925e3ac7athebigciceroWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:59:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b448706da811d925e3ac7a
You have no idea. In the aftermath of the New Deal and the country's cooperation between private sector and government during WWII, the people in the '50s had a far more optimistic viewpoint about the public sector and about the government's involvement in society. From the late 1920s through about the 1980s, the sentiment was largely favorable toward government, and this was considered not "socialism" but a pathway for democracy. The brief populist support for small government in the 1900s through the 1920s crumbled when people realized that the robber barons of the Gilded Age were amassing fortunes at the expense of average "Working Guys" and that the government could, for one, bust those large trusts and monopolies, and after working guys got stiffed by the unregulated Wall St of the day. Obama is of the same ilk as that society, hardly something that would be considered extreme or "socialist", as you call it, back then. The only difference today is that we believe in desegregation and LGBT rights. If you think that makes him extreme or socialist, then you're living in the wrong century.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4450469bedd2c26e18540Kach_22Wed, 02 Jul 2014 13:44:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4450469bedd2c26e18540
Can't be surprised that most polls like these who predicted a huge imaginary landslide for Romney still have him ahead in imaginary polls against Obama. Is is Americans or do Republicans just live in the imaginary fantasy world.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4406d69bedd9314e18535beanerecmoWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:25:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4406d69bedd9314e18535
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH
Remember the day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!
Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.
And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac? OBAMA
And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA and the Democrat Congress
So when someone tries to blame Bush..
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.
Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.
In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is "I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4400a6da811087ee3ac7aShockerMcGeeWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:23:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4400a6da811087ee3ac7a
Shocking that a 73% Caucasian and 37% Southern poll didn't like the democratic president. Worthless post BIhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43fe169bedddd12e18531beanerecmoWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:22:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43fe169bedddd12e18531
• Florida Showing Massive Voter Fraud – As High as 158% Turnout
<a href="http://visiontoamerica.com/12878/florida-showing-massive-voter-fraud/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://visiontoamerica.com/12878/florida-showing-massive-voter-fraud/</a>
• Voter Fraud: Obama Won 108% of Registered Voters in Ohio County
<a href="http://visiontoamerica.com/12872/voter-fraud-obama-won-108-of-registered-voters-in-ohio-county/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://visiontoamerica.com/12872/voter-fraud-obama-won-108-of-registered-voters-in-ohio-county/</a>
Further, in 99 precinct of Philadelphia, there were zero votes for Romney - a statistical improbability/impossibility.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43e4f6bb3f7c0188c2a5dAlexandraWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:15:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43e4f6bb3f7c0188c2a5d
W04http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43e1a69bedde678e18536hypcocritesWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:15:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43e1a69bedde678e18536
Yet Another Worthless Presidential Poll
A Quinnipiac poll that is getting some attention today finds that “Obama is first as worst president since World War II.”
Ignore those polls!
This new Quinnipiac poll does provide further evidence that President Barack Obama’s mild rally that began late last year has stalled or reversed. He’s a at 40 percent approval in this survey. More importantly, the HuffPollster average has him at 44 percent. Their “less smoothing” version, which is more sensitive to recent changes, has him a bit below 43 percent. Those aren’t strong numbers.
But the questions about who are the best and worst post-WWII presidents are useless.
What they mainly show is that Republicans are far more unified around a single story than are Democrats.
I’ll explain. On “best president,” Republicans are unified around Ronald Reagan: 66 percent pick him, with no one else getting more than 6 percent. Republicans are similarly in agreement on “worst president,” with Obama clobbering Jimmy Carter, 63 percent to 14 percent, and no one else better than 5 percent.
Democrats, however, have a competitive race for best president: Bill Clinton, at 34 percent, John Kennedy and Obama, at 18 percent. For worst president, Democrats again split between George W. Bush, at 54 percent, and Richard Nixon, at 20 percent.
With Republicans united and Democrats split, the “winners” simply reflect that Republican unity, so Reagan wins “best” and Obama “worst.” That would be the case even if Obama was quite a bit more popular.
This might reflect more efficient Republican transmission of talking points from elites to the rank-and-file. But it might just as well reflect the happenstances of history. Democrats have several reasonable candidates to choose from. Clinton and Kennedy were very popular; Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman had impressive accomplishments, along with the wars that made each unpopular while in office.
Republicans? They’re not going to choose Richard Nixon or, most likely, Gerald Ford. Both Bushes were unpopular while in office, and don’t really have the historical stature to overcome that. Dwight Eisenhower was an excellent president, but his views were very removed from contemporary mainstream conservatism, and at any rate the 1950s are ancient history to most respondents. Of course they’ll pick Reagan. And it’s no surprise that they choose the current occupant of the Oval Office over long-gone Carter, either, let alone the popular Clinton.
All of that should work out the way it has without any Fox News prompting.
And none of it tells us anything interesting about public opinion of recent presidents. For example, do Republicans ignore Ike because he isn't conservative, because his presidency was too far in the past, or because they just like Reagan better? We can’t even begin to guess from these data. The comparison questions just don’t work.
<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-02/yet-another-worthless-presidential-poll" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-02/yet-another-worthless-presidential-poll</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43e1569bedd4f01e18530AlexandraWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:15:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43e1569bedd4f01e18530
"Obama says he is a progressive liberal. Today's double speak for someone who in the 1950 & 60's would have been classified a socialist."
Oh please. Reagan would be classified as a progressive liberal/socialist today: Reagan tripled the national debt, banned full automatic firearms, lost hundreds of American lives in embassies overseas, negotiated with terrorists in Iran and Nicaragua etc.
But it's different because Reagan was a White Republican.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43dfc6bb3f75e138c2a62hypcocritesWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:14:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43dfc6bb3f75e138c2a62
Yet Another Worthless Presidential Poll
A Quinnipiac poll that is getting some attention today finds that “Obama is first as worst president since World War II.”
Ignore those polls!
This new Quinnipiac poll does provide further evidence that President Barack Obama’s mild rally that began late last year has stalled or reversed. He’s a at 40 percent approval in this survey. More importantly, the HuffPollster average has him at 44 percent. Their “less smoothing” version, which is more sensitive to recent changes, has him a bit below 43 percent. Those aren’t strong numbers.
But the questions about who are the best and worst post-WWII presidents are useless.
What they mainly show is that Republicans are far more unified around a single story than are Democrats.
I’ll explain. On “best president,” Republicans are unified around Ronald Reagan: 66 percent pick him, with no one else getting more than 6 percent. Republicans are similarly in agreement on “worst president,” with Obama clobbering Jimmy Carter, 63 percent to 14 percent, and no one else better than 5 percent.
Democrats, however, have a competitive race for best president: Bill Clinton, at 34 percent, John Kennedy and Obama, at 18 percent. For worst president, Democrats again split between George W. Bush, at 54 percent, and Richard Nixon, at 20 percent.
With Republicans united and Democrats split, the “winners” simply reflect that Republican unity, so Reagan wins “best” and Obama “worst.” That would be the case even if Obama was quite a bit more popular.
This might reflect more efficient Republican transmission of talking points from elites to the rank-and-file. But it might just as well reflect the happenstances of history. Democrats have several reasonable candidates to choose from. Clinton and Kennedy were very popular; Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman had impressive accomplishments, along with the wars that made each unpopular while in office.
Republicans? They’re not going to choose Richard Nixon or, most likely, Gerald Ford. Both Bushes were unpopular while in office, and don’t really have the historical stature to overcome that. Dwight Eisenhower was an excellent president, but his views were very removed from contemporary mainstream conservatism, and at any rate the 1950s are ancient history to most respondents. Of course they’ll pick Reagan. And it’s no surprise that they choose the current occupant of the Oval Office over long-gone Carter, either, let alone the popular Clinton.
All of that should work out the way it has without any Fox News prompting.
And none of it tells us anything interesting about public opinion of recent presidents. For example, do Republicans ignore Ike because he isn't conservative, because his presidency was too far in the past, or because they just like Reagan better? We can’t even begin to guess from these data. The comparison questions just don’t work.
<a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-02/yet-another-worthless-presidential-poll" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-07-02/yet-another-worthless-presidential-poll</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43d03ecad043d1fd84782SVWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:10:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43d03ecad043d1fd84782
This might be the least statistically significant survey ever taken. All it proves is that people remember things better when they're happening right now and not 4 decades ago.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43b8aeab8eaab3d33181fParth VWed, 02 Jul 2014 13:04:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43b8aeab8eaab3d33181f
The poll from Quineapig University?? LOL ADP numbers came best since Nov 2012, DOW 17,000 no troops in lalaland for oil, And people are complaining? The poll quality is oink oink!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b439cd69bedddb6ae18535Parth VWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:56:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b439cd69bedddb6ae18535
To the trolls here. I am glad the GOP is publicly fuming about immigration. That assures a democrat again in 2016 , No way the Hispanic community giving you a single vote. LOL. You are right, democrats know how to run an election, Obama is not the issue, 2016 is!. Go Hillary!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b439b26da811e15ce3ac7ajj2Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:56:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b439b26da811e15ce3ac7a
So I guess a plurality of people hate Obama because of his race now?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4392b6bb3f7cc048c2a5aParth VWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:54:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4392b6bb3f7cc048c2a5a
In force that is. Its for saving residual AMerican embassy personnel etc.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b438ee6bb3f736058c2a5aaguyWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:53:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b438ee6bb3f736058c2a5a
"Where are the protests over almost 1,700 troop deaths in Afghanistan since 2009?"
I'm not gonna bother fact checking that, I'll assume it's correct, but I have a better question: Why are we even in Afghanistan?
Because George W. Bush decided that we should go to war with Afghanistan to destroy Al Qaeda and kill Osama Bin Laden in the wake of 9/11. Seven years of George W. Bush & Company go by. Osama Bin Laden is still alive. Al Qaeda is still strong. Mission accomplished!
Who finally captured and killed Osama Bin Laden? Barack Obama.
Where was Osama Bin Laden captured and killed? Not Afghanistan.
Who is trying to remove troops from Afghanistan and save American lives now that at least something has been accomplished over there? Barack Obama. Yes he ordered more troops be deployed there, but at least he got his guy.
Now let's talk about "The 'collateral damage' of 2,400+ from drone strikes."
First of all, those drone strikes probably did more damage to Al Qaeda at far less cost than seven years in Afghanistan under Bush. But please, feel free to quantify that collateral damage.
Then compare it to the actual damage caused during the Iraq War which includes, but is not limited to, tens of thousands dead and trillions of dollars in debt from a universally accepted political nightmare and outright lie of a war.
What's the next worst thing Barack Obama has done? Try to get more people health care.
Yeah, Obama is much worse than Bush. GTFO.
(Let's see those downvotes.)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4383069bedd6666e18530bob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:49:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4383069bedd6666e18530
The GOP nominated Romney despite the NASCAR voters, not because of them - that's the main reason the GOP presidential primary was so ugly. The TeaParty was incredibly unhappy with Romney (remember all the RINO bs?), but were they going to turn around and vote for Obama? Hell no - they fell inline and voted how they were supposed to.
If the GOP had thrown Cain/Bachmann/Perry/etc, Obama would have won buy a significantly greater margin. Its telling that the GOP has won exactly 1 popular presidential vote since 1992, and at this rate, we are going to get 8yrs of Hillary, which may not be the best of outcomes. The GOP has GOT to get its shit together......
You may select my cigar from any of those listed here:
<a href="http://www.cigaraficionado.com/top25/show" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.cigaraficionado.com/top25/show</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4382d6bb3f7b9038c2a5aYes it is...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:49:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4382d6bb3f7b9038c2a5a
Yes, if they were obstructing communism, I might support that. But they're not. They're just obstructing Obama and encouraging people who don't understand what communism or socialism is to believe that Obama is a communist and/or a socialist.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b435c1ecad047b7dd84782Name (not) RequiredWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:39:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b435c1ecad047b7dd84782
"President Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, according to a plurality of voters in a new poll published Wednesday."...until the next one, then (s)he will be the worst ever...until the next one...you see where this is going....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b434e269beddf451e18532not even close...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:35:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b434e269beddf451e18532
I doubt that the GOP nominated Romney to go after the poor, under educated, white-trash/NASCAR vote…that sounds more like your personal bias than an established fact…don't be a hater...no cigar for youhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4349a6da811bf46e3ac7fDamionWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:34:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4349a6da811bf46e3ac7f
Speaking as a light Libertarian-Republican... Where are the politicians who cherish freedom, compromises, and unity? When a president does something defiantly, regardless about party affiliation, you stand with your fellow Americans to impeach the bastard. Excessively using mandates, heavy regulations, and executive orders is just dumb.
Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama are morons.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4348deab8eaa023331824nitemaresWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:34:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4348deab8eaa023331824
Wow! Americans either have no memory or they are completely non reflective.
Bush was either criminally responsible or totally incompetent to the point of stupid on 9/11. This alone is a huge indictment.
Iraq war on a lie, or at the very least cherry picked evidence, that supported a heavy bias to go in to Iraq regardless of consequences. We will pay for the next 50 years.
Anthrax in the mail, a month after 9/11. Who did it? Who knows? Another nice job Brownie.
Katrina, nice job Brownie.
Two wars and a Medicaid drug plan started without any thought of paying for them.
FBI held a presser on Sept 17 2004 stating they were working on the largest mortgage fraud since the S&L crisis. Bush follow up...zip, nada, nice job Brownie.
The financial crisis which was building throughout the 8 years of his Presidency. Surprised at collapse at the end. Refer back to FBI presser in 2004. Nice job, Brownie.
Bush has managed to double the countries debt from 5 to over 10T in 8 yrs. while lowering the government tax income. Nice job Brownie.
Gives half of 780B to those that caused the financial crisis without any record of where it went.
Those are just off the top of my head. If I looked more closely I could probably come up with a dozen more. Each one of these is worse than anything Obama has done as far as I can tell. Obama inherited the wars and financial catastrophe associated with them and the housing collapse.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b433a96bb3f7016c8c2a5c2 Cool 2 Fool...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:30:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b433a96bb3f7016c8c2a5c
I hear that PA is a very small alternative universe filled with people who like their god and their guns.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43315eab8ea9f1c33181fSmitty PAWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:28:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43315eab8ea9f1c33181f
Objectivity is hardly a sign of intellectual weakness. What IS a sign of intellectual weakness is ignoring what is objectively right in front of your face. Fifty votes to repeal settled law, the Senate minority leader publicly declaring his primary objective is to make sure the president fails. Limpdick publicly praying for our president to fail. Maybe you just have no idea what "obstructionist" means....?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4320d6bb3f7366b8c2a5aSmitty PAWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:23:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4320d6bb3f7366b8c2a5a
Either that is complete bullshit, or you live in a very small alternate universe.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b431ad6bb3f7e2688c2a5aSmitty PAWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:22:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b431ad6bb3f7e2688c2a5a
The worlds most powerful terrorist? Stock up on the Depends man.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4316a6da811f838e3ac7abob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:20:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4316a6da811f838e3ac7a
....and you owe me a cigar.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4314cecad049070d8477eSmitty PAWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:20:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4314cecad049070d8477e
President Obama has never once claimed to be a progressive liberal.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4311a69bedd5a3de18530S. FuchsWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:19:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4311a69bedd5a3de18530
To balance a budget you need revenue, not just cuts or giving money to the wealthy and big business. In MN which is now Dem. controlled the Rep. left a billion dollar deficit. They borrowed over a billion dollars from our schools. The Dems raised taxes on the top 2%. We paid back the schools, added free all day kind. invested in pre-K and froze tuition on colleges. Gave tax breaks to middle class and relief for property owners. We expanded Medicaid. We have a balanced budget for the next four years and a billion dollar surplus. We are in the top 7% or higher in job growth, education, business, unemployment in the U.S. Revenue is needed to balance a budget.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43119ecad046a6dd8477dbob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:19:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b43119ecad046a6dd8477d
My point was that congress in the late 40s, despite ideological differences, was able to work with Truman on a variety of issues to reach a broader consensus - I think was can agree on that point.
The difference today is that the GOP has no ideology beyond "Fuck Obama" - that's not a platform, that's pathetic. And not all liberals are angels - I completely agree with that, but the 2012 GOP primary was a complete clown show and those people were supposed to be the best the GOP has to offer.
For the GOP to remain relevant, they need to address the poor, under educated, white-trash/NASCAR element that is the basis of the Tea Party, and actually DO something to fix their station in life - the pandering and fear mongering needs to end.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b430f4eab8ead51733181fSmitty PAWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:19:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b430f4eab8ead51733181f
More proof that America has become a nation of morons.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b430deecad04d667d8477cJobinWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:18:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b430deecad04d667d8477c
Not trying to defend him here, but I really wonder what the demographic (mainly age) of those surveyed are. I wonder how many were even alive before George HW Bush was in office..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42f06eab8eaea0e33181fAnarchistWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:10:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42f06eab8eaea0e33181f
This only confirms that 1/3 of Americans are Democrats, another 1/3 Republicans and the remaining 1/3 sentient.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42ecd6da811582be3ac7aCrito22Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:09:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42ecd6da811582be3ac7a
Obama........got 90% of the vote and positive approval rating? I'll be damned.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42eb0ecad047566d8477cS. FuchsWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:09:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42eb0ecad047566d8477c
Or watches Fox news or Republicans that lie. Sad our country allows this.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42e4eeab8eadf0833181fnot even close...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:07:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42e4eeab8eadf0833181f
almost but no cigar….Truman also tried to extend the New Deal through Healthcare, the country was exhausted by war and didn't want Korea and immigration was a deep concern as returning GI's wanted to protect labor markets…what Truman did that Obama doesn't do is to work with Congress to seek a way forward …and as far as prey on your fears to enrich themselves there are as many on the left as on the right who subscribe to this tactic…Charlie Rangel ring any bells? the list is long and illustrious ….the problem we now face is no one is willing to put the country in front of their ideologyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42e0369bedd9427e18533S. FuchsWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:06:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42e0369bedd9427e18533
I find this poll to be inaccurate. I am sure many are Fox watchers and hear false, and misleading comments by Republicans. In Canada you can not give false or misleading information. Presently NBC, ABC and CBS are aired there. They tried to get Fox over there by deregulating broadcasting so Fox could air, but decided against it. I am sure many people answering this poll are hearing false information. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-will-not-be-moving-into-canada-after-all_b_829473.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-will-not-be-moving-into-canada-after-all_b_829473.html</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42de96da811c428e3ac7aMr. ConvenientWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:06:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42de96da811c428e3ac7a
I'm amazed at how the left continues to double-down on stupid and continues to make excuses for this guy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42dbf69bedd712de18532CritoWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:05:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42dbf69bedd712de18532
The two most recent presidents, of opposite parties, are voted the worst since WWII. Does everyone not realize that this speaks more to the poor state of our political climate, discourse and sensationalized media more than it does to the character of either of those two presidents?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42d526bb3f763598c2a5aGOP took it to a whole new levelWed, 02 Jul 2014 12:03:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42d526bb3f763598c2a5a
Obviously there are plenty of examples of Presidents and Congresses being comprised of different parties and sometimes failing to work together throughout history, but Republicans in Congress since 2009 have taken it to an extreme never before seen in our history.
No President before Obama has ever had to deal with a unified approach of being so vehemently against every single proposal put forth by the President that they refuse to even come to the table to talk about how a negotiation to compromise would even look like. No Party before the 2009-2014 GOP has publicly stated that their goal was not to serve the People or follow the Constitution, but rather, to kick the President out of his job; nor has any party before the present-day GOP turned virtually every vote in the Senate into one that requires a 60 vote supermajority.
Obstructionism existed before 2009, obviously. And throughout history the GOP, Democrats, and other parties have all been guilty of it. None of them did it like the GOP has over the past five and a half years. They've raised it to an art form.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42c086da811da1be3ac86Cloture SucksWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:58:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42c086da811da1be3ac86
And threat of cloture amounts to the same thing. It does not serve the people. Go back to old filibuster rules.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42b1a69bedd6714e18531SomchaiWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:54:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42b1a69bedd6714e18531
I think you're probably right, but with the caveat that he would be judged as a duplicitous and incompetent Republican.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42ad4ecad047159d84784ObummerWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:52:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42ad4ecad047159d84784
Clearly everyone who took this poll is a racist.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42a6c69bedd281de18530patchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:51:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42a6c69bedd281de18530
"@badbob: Your mom asked me to ask you to bring more anal lube, there is a long line still waiting to be served."
Sounds like you got experience. Not that I could care.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42a0a6da8111116e3ac7dUmm.Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:49:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42a0a6da8111116e3ac7d
GW Bush issued more executive orders than Obama.
George Bush Sr. issued more executive orders in his one term than Obama did in either of his terms.
Reagan issued more executive orders than Obama.
Nixon issued more. Eisenhower, more. Hoover, more.
In fact, the last President to issue executive orders at a slower pace than Obama was Grover Cleveland. And on top of that, Obama's slowed down significantly in his second term.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b429edeab8ea817c33181fpatchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:49:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b429edeab8ea817c33181f
Here's the trolls. Without one doubt. Because the up/down votes in no way reflect the survey (even if the survey is flawed).
And as others have posted (accurately IMO), the survey doesn't just reflect opinions of Obama, it also speaks to overall public disgust with the entire political system. Which is indeed justified.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4289469beddd30be18532As opposed to...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:43:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4289469beddd30be18532
Even assuming that such a number is huge, it's meaningless without the context of how many innocent people died under the "status quo" health insurance industry prior to the ACA.
From 2009 (prior to passage of the ACA): "An investigation by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations showed that health insurers WellPoint Inc., UnitedHealth Group and Assurant Inc. canceled the coverage of more than 20,000 people, allowing the companies to avoid paying more than $300 million in medical claims over a five-year period.
It also found that policyholders with breast cancer, lymphoma and more than 1,000 other conditions were targeted for rescission and that employees were praised in performance reviews for terminating the policies of customers with expensive illnesses."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b427f36bb3f7f3438c2a5aRev. Clyde DunningWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:40:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b427f36bb3f7f3438c2a5a
Yah, Right. Tea Party Still Poking and hating. It's not the statistics that lie; It's the statisticians that lie.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b425bf6da811a07de3ac7abob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:31:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b425bf6da811a07de3ac7a
Eh, I'll stick with my current gighttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42471eab8eab16533181fkim.hunter.357Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:25:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42471eab8eab16533181f
So, even with the hyper partisan views that will be expressed here, if we just step back and look at the Iraq invasion, tens of thousands dead even by Bush's low-ball account, millions displaced and the region far less stable than it's been in decades. All of that was based on bad intelligence, false intelligence and trigger happy advisors & cabinet. Then there is Bush's handling of Katrina. How many natural disasters have we had with 1000 dead?
I am not talking policy, left or right. I talking about dead, injured and traumatized for life along with a global mess. You don't have to agree with Obamacare or Obama's policy on anything else. There's no comparison to Bush's failures.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b424366bb3f791338c2a5abob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:24:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b424366bb3f791338c2a5a
On what fucking planet is "www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com" a reliable source? Get out of your echo chamber for 5min. If your argument is so robust, you wouldn't need to like to tinfoil hat websites for support. Go back to to prepping your doomsday shelter.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b423b46da8117e75e3ac7cSkippsterWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:22:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b423b46da8117e75e3ac7c
What a great predictor you are you right-wing loser. Maybe you should go to the racetrack,http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42382ecad04803ad8477cHistory matters!Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:21:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42382ecad04803ad8477c
Under W., gas prices were higher than they are today. The only reason they dropped so substantially in 2008 was the Great Recession, and since the economy is healthier now, so are gas prices. Regardless, Presidents don't control gas prices, but if they did, this is clearly not on Obama (and Schumer and the Dems were wrong to blame Bush for high prices in 2005-2007).
Most Americans have changed their opinion on gay marriage in the past 10 years. Would you prefer a President who sticks with their beliefs no matter how much evidence there is that their beliefs are wrong??
Obama has not proposed any laws that would take away anyone's guns; all he's proposed are common sense approaches to restrict access to new gun purchases for the mentally unstable and for guns that go far above and beyond what anyone could possibly need for self defense.
Insurance companies control what doctors are on your plan, not Obama.
Premiums are significantly lower today than where they would be in the absence of the ACA - keep in mind the double digit percentage increases almost every year for the twelve years prior to the full implementation of the ACA. $2500 less than where they would be? Maybe not, but it's not that far off.
To @sixtyone: Here is a quote from Mitch McConnell around the time of Obama's inauguration: "Our goal is to make this President a one-term President." Notice he didn't say, "Our goal is to improve the lives of our constituents," or "Our goal is to follow the Constitution to the best of our abilities." The Republicans publicly laid out an obstructionist strategy and have followed it to the letter.
To @Mr Thrifty:
You have no fucking clue what the word "Socialist" means. A socialist health care plan is not a plan that is run entirely by private companies with no public option. You just scream "Socialism!" because you know it's a negative word even though you couldn't care less if it's accurate or not.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42311ecad043933d84783SkippsterWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:19:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b42311ecad043933d84783
Go back and finish masturbating to Megyn Kelly you FOX NoNews braindead moron.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4210eecad04d626d84781pushbuttonchimpWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:11:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4210eecad04d626d84781
I find it fascinating that most of the talking points and issues the right-wing have been railing on have been spurious racist crybaby loser talk. Nothing of substance. Just a bunch of losers. They will lose big come November. I'm guessing a back-lash against the Tea Party as the silent majority wakes up and says enough is enough of putting up with uneducated morons holding government hostage.
Most of the right wing tools here know these polls and articles are flame bait articles to stir up the right-wing base, but a lot of them are sucked into these articles as a place to just rant their Faux News brain washing and church camp talking points. Did you right wingers attend your vacation bible school yet? Better get it done or you're headed for hell, the bus is leaving to Hades with you chained to the seat bitches.
Instead of taking advantage of a President that has actually tried to work with the right wing--and he has actually done more than enough to work with them--they take every opportunity to waste time and do nothing but hurl insults and behave shamefully without remorse for their embarrassing uneducated behavior.
Most of us liberals find his working with these intransigent losers disgusting. Obama may fair low in the polls, but he knows at this point it doesn't matter. There's really not enough time left in his last term for the right wing losers and retards to really do much other than waste more time.
It's sad that there are so many uneducated people in the right wing... liberals and the left look on in disgust and horror that this country is being intentionally weakened by stupid right wing trailer park residents, and what's even more amazing is that people keep voting into office these morons. Staggering stupidity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41ff8ecad044327d8477dC DWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:06:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41ff8ecad044327d8477d
The media keeps putting up these frauds as front-runners and the people just accept them. Why is the news media deciding in advance who the legitimate candidates are? Most people know nothing about even ballot-listed third candidates. The front-runners are always the worst, "machine politicians". As long as the DNC and RNC have a portal lock on the process, we will never have a chance for real change and a reversion to Constitutional principles. It's not gridlock, it's a mortal lock on the whole political process that can't be changed from within.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41f6d6bb3f7fc208c2a5cGeniusWed, 02 Jul 2014 11:04:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41f6d6bb3f7fc208c2a5c
"Modern day"?
You're kind, very kind...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41e57eab8ea6e4c331822Mr ThriftyWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:59:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41e57eab8ea6e4c331822
>You mean the ACA that was originally the plan of the Heritage Foundation,
Why don't you actually do some research, instead of showing us you only know how to puke liberal talking points. They are nothing alike...
<a href="http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/12/the-aca-v-the-heritage-plan-a-comparison-in-chart-form" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/12/the-aca-v-the-heritage-plan-a-comparison-in-chart-form</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41d086bb3f710188c2a5bHuh?Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:54:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41d086bb3f710188c2a5b
Do you really believe his base is the majority of the country?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41c286bb3f70d158c2a63Do you understandWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:50:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41c286bb3f70d158c2a63
So what? The gop are also elected officials and represent people with an equal share in the management in this country. That's what they were elected to do!
So get over it. Everyone still gets representation no matter who is president.
Not everyone agrees with obamas agenda or idealogy. And your rights are no more valuable than theirs.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41b7d69beddb33fe18534aburn8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:47:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41b7d69beddb33fe18534
We are back in Iraqhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41af269beddaf3fe18530Korda GyorgyWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:45:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41af269beddaf3fe18530
He is smart as long as the teleprompters are telling him what to say. Left to his own devices he is an empty suit.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41adb6bb3f70e0d8c2a5daburn8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:44:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41adb6bb3f70e0d8c2a5d
Obama is the obstructionist. The way he shoved Obamacare down the throats of a public that did not support it, the way he refuses to protect our borders... He has built an environment where nobody can trust or support him.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41a6d6bb3f7e00d8c2a5bKorda GyorgyWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:42:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41a6d6bb3f7e00d8c2a5b
Obstructing the furthering of the communist manifesto's agendas is a good thing you know.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41a2feab8ea673c33181faburn8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:41:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41a2feab8ea673c33181f
So your belief is that Obama has been successful?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b419f36bb3f77b098c2a5bKorda GyorgyWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:40:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b419f36bb3f77b098c2a5b
Working perfect. Change for the worst that is.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41925ecad04950fd8477cMike DdWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:37:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41925ecad04950fd8477c
"If the three powers maintain their mutual independence on each
other our Government may last long, but not so if either can
assume the authorities of the other." --Thomas Jefferson to William
Charles Jarvis, 1820.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41909ecad042c0bd8477eJavamanWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:36:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41909ecad042c0bd8477e
"The problem is, that 90% of the country is made up of mindless sheep who just vote to get free stuff, based on race, etc."
You mean like a booming stock market?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b418dc6bb3f732068c2a5bbadbobWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:36:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b418dc6bb3f732068c2a5b
I wouldn't go anywhere near that herpes, HIV infested, inbred, son of a bitch, with anything except a baseball bat. I'm seriously hoping this prick dies very very soon. He's been on me for a long time. I can't understand why BI will spank someone for nothing yet let this guy say this constantly. BI is extremely inconsistent with their policies about posting..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b418b06da811e744e3ac7aQWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:35:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b418b06da811e744e3ac7a
If you try to say that he is worse than President Bush, you sound really silly.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4187369bedd2b37e18535yoshimotoWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:34:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4187369bedd2b37e18535
Bush Jr should actually get the title because it was his incompetence that led to a silver-tongued dude with ABSOLUTELY NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE to get elected to the most powerful job in the world....his worthless community organizer background is really showing ...heck yes, Romney would have been a great president...but he was dull, like most great managers.....he was perfect but the American people and the lib media are too dumb and to focused on political correctness than competence ...and here they go pushing prom queen Hillary who is just as worthless..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4171f6da811ac37e3ac7ebob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:28:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4171f6da811ac37e3ac7e
Truman is a great example to bring up b/c the Republicans at the time (and conservative Southern Dems who are now Republicans) had arguably legitimate arguments against the continuation of the depression-era new deal domestic policies in a post WWII world. You are right that Truman faced a lot of reasoned opposition at home, but his legacy was marked by 1) compromise on a number of bills that did pass during his administration, and 2) A LOT of rep/dem cooperation with respect to military and international policy, where Truman was extremely successful.
The problem with the GOP today is they have zero ideas and are running on a platform "I don't care what it is, if Obama supports it, I am opposed to it. Fuck everything else...." The GOP/Tea Party has actively disengaged from the political process that has defined this country for 200 years and simply put their heads in the sand.
And current GOP voters wonder why they feel like they get the short end of the stick? Look in the mirror - you get what you voted for - a bunch of amateur hour political grifters who prey on your fears to enrich themselves. I've never been a liberal, but I'm horrified by what the GOP has become in the last 15 years.
And for a little perspective, for the "the world is coming to an end and things are different this time" crowd: This quote comes from the Miller Center at UVA (a great great historical resource) - the more things change, the more they stay the same and things aren't anywhere as broken as so many people want to believe: "Truman's program went nowhere. While he won passage of a "full employment" bill—the Employment Act of 1946—the measure had no teeth. Republicans and conservative southern Democrats in Congress were dead-set against many of the other proposed reforms, including an extension of FEPC, national health insurance, and a higher minimum wage. The public, moreover, divided over the prospects of an enlarged social welfare state and continued government intervention in the economy; liberal Democrats and key constituents of the Democratic Party supported them, but many other Americans did not." Sound familiar?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b415c1ecad049d02d8477ckholtzWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:22:57 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b415c1ecad049d02d8477c
give the man some credit - he went from community organizer to virtual dictator in just a few short years.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b412c36da811ef21e3ac7dkellydorsey8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:10:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b412c36da811ef21e3ac7d
Obama followed the most corrupt administration in US history - one that was elected by the father's Supreme Court judges and brother's fraudulent "election chads" (which NEVER existed in the OTHER 49 states throughout ALL history).
Considering those 1988-1992, 2000-2008 Bush appointments(plus a Cheney VP), any President would have few tools to work with <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/165809/congressional-approval-sinks-record-low.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.gallup.com/poll/165809/congressional-approval-sinks-record-low.aspx</a> - and the laziest US Congress in history is now even lower than a nine(9%) percent approval rating.
Don't forget even "WMDs/'no-bid' war" Cheney mustered 13% - <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b412c2eab8ea632433181fkellydorsey8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 10:10:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b412c2eab8ea632433181f
Obama followed the most corrupt administration in US history - one that was elected by the father's Supreme Court judges and brother's fraudulent "election chads" (which NEVER existed in the OTHER 49 states throughout ALL history).
Considering those 1988-1992, 2000-2008 Bush appointments(plus a Cheney VP), any President would have few tools to work with <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/165809/congressional-approval-sinks-record-low.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.gallup.com/poll/165809/congressional-approval-sinks-record-low.aspx</a> - and the laziest US Congress in history is now even lower than a nine(9%) percent approval rating.
Don't forget even "WMDs/'no-bid' war" Cheney mustered 13% - <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/remembering-why-americans-loathe-dick-cheney/244306/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b412a96bb3f76c6c8c2a5aThinkaboutitWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:09:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b412a96bb3f76c6c8c2a5a
Read the comments below to see what is wrong with America today. If you are on the right, it never matters what your guys did or didn't do wrong; only what the left did or didn't do wrong. If you are on the left, it never matters what your guys did or didn't do wrong; only what the right did or didn't do wrong.
Perhaps our country would be better served if each side held their own up to the standards they hold their opposition. I think GOD talks about removing the plank from one's own eye before removing the splinter from someone elses.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4125aecad04ae75d8477cAlligator BreathWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:08:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4125aecad04ae75d8477c
I may be wrong. But, I'm betting that if badbob wanted any lip out of you he would rattle his zipper.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41250ecad048673d8477cSenecaWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:08:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b41250ecad048673d8477c
Please elaborate. This should be good.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4120decad047f72d8478fBillyWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:07:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4120decad047f72d8478f
Yes, Barry is a horrible president. Everyone with a brain know that. The problem is, that 90% of the country is made up of mindless sheep who just vote to get free stuff, based on race, etc.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411dceab8eae21f331821Rebecca NewlandWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:06:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411dceab8eae21f331821
Of course they should mention that Fox News conducted the poll (since the network has many sponsors for university programs).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411a76bb3f71f6e8c2a5apatchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:05:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411a76bb3f71f6e8c2a5a
"Remember gas prices in 2008 ($2.53) and the media and dem congress (Schumer, et al) screamed bloody murder."
Hate to tell you, but no Prez sets gasoline prices (unless we start talking price controls). Domestic oil production has increased under Obama. His administration just loosened restrictions on exports of unrefined US oil (I don't happen to agree with that). US refined gasoline exports have almost tripled since Obama came into office.
Isn't gasoline what you call a fungible commodity? We could get into a discussion about gasoline futures trading here I think.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411566bb3f7b0698c2a62bittergreenWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:04:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411566bb3f7b0698c2a62
"And I thought it would take something special to beat George W. Bush's Katrina era level incompetence."
'It would and it hasn't occurred yet. Try again.'
According to a recent Quinipiac poll, a good deal of responders to the poll wouldn't agree with you. Again it's all opinion. Who's the worst? who's the best? My best is Calvin Coolidge. Most historians would not agree with me. He receives middling grade from most historians other than the few Coolidge fetishists out there.
I understand your Team D, and i'm team R. See, I'm a Knicks fan, and even though Raymond Felton was our starting point guard, I can understand that he just wasn't good at his job. And if you were a Nets fan, you could agree with me, that Raymond Felton is bad, even though we pull for different teams.
And while my team and your team have different and contrasting goals, we can both agree that the people from our team, were and are really fucking bad at doing their job as chief executive of the bureaucracy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411506bb3f74d6b8c2a5aRaj HaniWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:04:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b411506bb3f74d6b8c2a5a
Children and immature adults talk about what is cool or uncool. Others just get things done.
If you were upper middle class or better when Obama arrived in office, and you are now poorer, look to put the blame on yourself, not Obama.
One of my former neighbors (who lived well beyond his means) was foreclosed on in 2009. It was very embarrasing for him and his family, the only foreclosure in the neighborhood. He worked in mortgage finance, and, I assume, was part of the subprime and Alt-A loan bubble. After losing his job and before he lost his house, anytime I would talk to him, it was always "Obozo this, Obozo that". He was a loser, and like many losers do, he blamed an external source, and in this case that source was Obama.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b410aeecad04636dd8477fChristian KonczWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:01:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b410aeecad04636dd8477f
Socialist? Don't make me laugh. He isn't even a liberal. He is what is known in Europe as a Christian Democrat (like Angela Merkel), a right-winger. In America you have two choices. You can vote for the pro-business Christian Democrats or the plutocratic brownshirt republicans. Socialism has been outlawed since the Mc Carthy purges in the fifties and anyone just accused of socialist leanings is instantly destroyed politically. These are facts, but I know you and your delusional fascist buddies don't like those.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4107369beddd908e18535JdrizzleWed, 02 Jul 2014 10:00:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4107369beddd908e18535
Except that the poll was conducted by Quinnipiachttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40fb16da811771ae3ac7aRollerDWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:57:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40fb16da811771ae3ac7a
Americans don't know history.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40f6b69bedd5178e18536Raj HaniWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:55:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40f6b69bedd5178e18536
Not working out too badly. Mty net worth is up a little more than 5x (based largely on investments made into equity markets in Mar and April of 09.). Also of the 3 homes I own (1 is a rental), 2 are now 20% ABOVE the high price they reached in 2007. And they both have doubled in price since 2000. Taking away my only debt which is my mortgage on just the rental (which is cash flow positive), I am, at least on paper, a mutlimillionaire. And I have now cashed in on 90% of my equity position, and only have to worry about my house prices falling down, which is ok since even if they go to 0, I will still be a multimillionaire.
Add to this that my neighbor who has a preexisting condtion can now afford healthcare, and that a nephew of mine has is no longer fighting in a meaningless war in Iraq, I'd say Obama is the damn best president since I've been in this country (since the 70s). Of course, much of this good fortune is due to the business cycle and easy monetary policy, but Obama did not impede it, and, if the House obstructionist weren't in the way, we'd have an even better economy not one just built on easy money.
Thanks Obama.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40f3469bedd2b03e18530not even close...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:55:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40f3469bedd2b03e18530
Truman faced both houses of Congress with Republican majorities, labor wishing him dead and an irrational preoccupation with the Red Scare and he did a much better job than this guy. I'm amazed at how little Americans actually know about America.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40ece6da811b415e3ac7aJavamanWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:53:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40ece6da811b415e3ac7a
"And I thought it would take something special to beat George W. Bush's Katrina era level incompetence."
It would and it hasn't occurred yet. Try again.
"You'll pull some magic out of your hate, America, and deliver something truly amazing in '16. Someone who can top the levels of awfulness produced by Andrew Johnson or Warren Harding."
Only if the GOP wins for some reason, but since 1988 they have only won the popular vote once, we probably aren't in any danger of that happening.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40e0f69bedd5c78e18531goodfornothingWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:50:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40e0f69bedd5c78e18531
I really hate to finally give in and say it. especially since I worked on the Obama campaign back in 08' - but he definetly is the worst president in the modern era, maybee in history. If you try to defend him and say he wasnt that bad, you just sound silly.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40cf66da8116e0ce3ac7apatchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:45:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40cf66da8116e0ce3ac7a
I'm no Obama or Democrat shill. Obama doesn't appear to be a good manager. He don't seem to like the art of politics. He doesn’t communicate with the public well, even though he can be eloquent. He’s got other shortcomings.
But I keep askin'...where's Congress? Oh, I know where. There's a segment of a particular political party that controls things in the House. And they want NOTHING to happen. NOTHING. Because they don't really want smaller government, they’d like to see NO Federal government (but we had that particular discussion more than 200 years ago). And I've concluded that some of those of a particular political persuasion DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN THE CONCEPT OF A SOCIETY. As in every man is an island.
We’ve already been through the thing about Executive Orders. Obama’s issued fewer than his predecessors. That’s undeniable. And how many Obama vetoes? Grand total of two. Two! That’s tellin’ me that Congress ain’t doin’ shit. Nothing’s even reaching his desk.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b408ed6da8119778e3ac7a2 Cool 2 Fool...Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:28:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b408ed6da8119778e3ac7a
…everyone I know who voted for Barry, young and old, did so because they thought that he was cool and that by voting for him they were cool, beyond that they could careless…you get what you vote forhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40805eab8ea2b7b33181fQWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:24:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40805eab8ea2b7b33181f
They confirmed a few, but the number that were blocked was significantly greater than 4 (Please tell me that I don't have to explain numbers or greater than to you although I understand that math is complicated for conservatives). Just as the number of Marines that were killed in Lebanon or the number of people who died in embassy bombings during the Bush Administration was greater than the number killed in Benghazi but for some reason, the GOP has had more hearings on Benghazi than the Democrats had on the former.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b407d6ecad048249d8477dHarveyDentistWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:23:34 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b407d6ecad048249d8477d
This poll is the definition of relative distortion in statistics. How old were the people who were asked ? if it s the average age of an American. Ok. the WORST president ? How can he be worst than Nixon? Also he was handed a United States when the roller coaster was gaining momentum .... DOWNHILL. The Dow has gone from 7000ish to 17000ish. He is serious about coal. Killed Bin laden. Used drones to take out 855 of Al Queda leaders. Obama's worst policy mistakes would be the XL pipeline and the healthcare law. If you feel this programs will make hurt you financially. All you have to do is buy some HUM Humana stock, and an oil refinery like CVRR. In America anyone can buy stocks in the public market to capture the gains the rich have enjoyed and decrease the income disparity that was amplified by the great recession. These policy blunders are nothing compared to Katrina, The Great Recession, the War on Drugs. or Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 signed by Bill Clinton. Potentially stealing an election. Excessive tax cuts for rich. The housing bubbles created by George W saying " every American should own a home. It pales in comparison. The people pooled are obviously biased towards recent events, and the facts have been distorted due to the fact that Bush tried to prop up the economy with Billions of dollars in capital injections into the banking system before the fall of 2008 so the collapse would happen after his presidency. Nice try W. You fooled others but have not fooled me.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4068aecad04154ad8477cpatchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:18:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4068aecad04154ad8477c
You forgot to mention that bin Laden is dead. I thought that was another thing the public wanted.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4062c69bedd7844e18532JustAnObserverIVWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:16:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4062c69bedd7844e18532
Well, wait and see how Barry will distribute his newly found wealth once he leaves office. Do ya think he will join a country club while simultaneously shilling for MSNBC?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40628ecad04c83cd8477cbadbobWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:16:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40628ecad04c83cd8477c
If you go back and look at presidential polls throughout history, almost without exception, the current president gets judged harsher than previous ones. It's only because people are stupid and can't remember the past very well. I dislike Obama as well, but worst since WW2. Hardly.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b405e56bb3f709408c2a5asixtyoneWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:15:17 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b405e56bb3f709408c2a5a
Question - Are you on the public dole or the beneficiary of a trust fund?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4059969beddec48e18534Doug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:14:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4059969beddec48e18534
So you're thinking the Senate blocked all of Obama's appointees?
Tell me that you're not that uninformed.
Though I suppose it's possible that you are?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40587ecad044937d84782badbobWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:13:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40587ecad044937d84782
I hate to break it to you, but back in the 50's and 60's, he would have been classified as a Republican. You are either not old enough to have experienced the 60's or you are experiencing Alzheimers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b405826bb3f7983f8c2a5epatchyfogWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:13:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b405826bb3f7983f8c2a5e
"@doodle: PLEASE use upper and lower case"
Ah jeez it's part of doodle's stream-of-consciousness style. I can deal with that. And I can read his stuff without my glasses!!
Not that I want everyone using all caps.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40576ecad049940d8477fNothing to see here.Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:13:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b40576ecad049940d8477f
The fact that Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon got such low percentages and none of the others got more than 3% just goes to show that people's memory is only toward what happened recently or just now. This poll is a meaningless piece of political schlock. Nothing to see here .. move along. I bet some of those people "polled" can't even name all of the Presidents since WWII.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b404e86da8110f63e3ac7aken62Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:11:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b404e86da8110f63e3ac7a
Right, worst than Bush and Carter and and LBJ and NIXON is laughable.
Under Buch - 4,500 plus soldiers and tens of thousands wounded from unjust war in Iraq and the worse economy since the Great Depression arose under Bush
50,000 plus dead in Vietnam under LBJ;
High inflation and high interest rates under Carter;
Nixon, lying through his teeth and anti-free market with price controls.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b404e269bedd164de18530JudgeMathis2014Wed, 02 Jul 2014 09:10:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b404e269bedd164de18530
Well....I have seen Presidents from Carter to Obama.
My rankings:
1) Reagan
2) Clinton
3) Carter, Both Bushes, Obama(all lousy)
The Obama disappointment -- Obama came in with such high hopes and expectations. I don't blame him entirely. I think the President at times is severely handicapped dealing with Congress. I also blame the lobbyists(they pretty much 'buy' congress by donations).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b404e069bedd6b50e18530kdhouseWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:10:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b404e069bedd6b50e18530
Pretty funny that you are so blind drunk on the Koolaid--and worship a fool. I laugh at that incompetent clown and all his followers!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4047269beddb443e18536Doug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:09:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4047269beddb443e18536
What would they do? Work?
I crack myself up sometimes.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b403eb6da811525de3ac7agrenadetradeWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:06:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b403eb6da811525de3ac7a
If the GOP can't win the next election, they really need to disband. What would be worse than the worst modern day president would be to elect another from the same party that provided it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4039d6bb3f760368c2a5cQWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:05:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4039d6bb3f760368c2a5c
From your article:
"The Senate on Wednesday began an extraordinary 30-hour through-the-night session initiated by Republicans to dramatize what they say is the unfairness of the Democrats in blocking FOUR of President Bush's judicial nominees."
Four nominees. Not every nominee. The GOP blocked 3 on the District court that leads into the Supreme court alone.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b402caeab8ea0361331826Doug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 09:02:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b402caeab8ea0361331826
Glad I can save you the trouble of having to come up with coherent sentences.
The New York Times, on Senate obstruction of nominees.
In 2003.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/us/angered-by-filibusters-on-nominees-republicans-stage-their-own-protest.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/us/angered-by-filibusters-on-nominees-republicans-stage-their-own-protest.html</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4021d69bedd6339e18530WerdnarWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:59:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4021d69bedd6339e18530
Unfortunately, with proper research and common sense, I knew this was going to happen ever since Obama opened up his political career at Bill Ayers' home.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4014aeab8eace5d33181f1100ccWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:55:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4014aeab8eace5d33181f
More like "Americans Finally Starting To Understand What Many Of Us Knew From The Beginning..."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b400e8ecad04af2ed8477cJavamanWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:54:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b400e8ecad04af2ed8477c
Doug is probably old and has amnesia about the Reagan years.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4005b6bb3f7a12b8c2a5aQWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:51:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b4005b6bb3f7a12b8c2a5a
"Clearly you have a very one-sided view of the situation."
Once again, you are projecting yourself onto others.
Did Tom Daschle filibuster his own bills or make it so that every bill and nominee had to have 60 votes. Did the Democrats try to impeach Ronald Reagan for Iran Contra even though it was an impeachable offense?
To be honest, I don't expect to change your opinion, but perhaps it will help others to expose it for the uninformed propaganda that it is.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3ff4cecad04ea2dd8477cDoug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:47:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3ff4cecad04ea2dd8477c
Clearly you have a very one-sided view of the situation. You can't see, for example, that Reagan also worked with Tip O'Neill, or that Reagan didn't try to lie about the causes of the death of the Marines in Lebanon. Tom Daschle employed many of the obstruction techniques you describe. I don't expect to change your opinion, but perhaps it will help others to expose it for the uninformed propaganda that it is.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3ff1c69bedd401be18530bob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:46:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3ff1c69bedd401be18530
Get out of here with your facts! The commenters here can't tolerate the harsh glare of reality!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fefc69bedde82fe18530Parth vWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:45:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fefc69bedde82fe18530
Actually great. If the GOP with mitt was in power you would be in Ukraine and Iraq. I prefer golfing in USA. I love the hope and change. Fore!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3feec69beddbe2ce18530jimmy mactheknifeWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:45:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3feec69beddbe2ce18530
PLEASE use upper and lower case. OK Let's review:
1. Worse than even Carter on foreign policy debacles and standing idly by while hundreds of thousands are slain.
2. Unilateral cut and run strategy for military and disarming the USA.
3. Refusal to enforce laws he signed or passed by Congress.
4. Using power of IRS against his political foes.
5. Worst legislation ever with Obamacare and worst implementation roll out even after four years to get it right..
6. Worst cronyism, worst transparency, worst EPA mandates unsupported by science and worst expansion of welfare via food stamps, housing and utilities giveaways.
7. Worst immigrant policies, worst record with supreme court overturning his government expansions, worst expansion of government illegal phone, email, text and internet data collection, facial and license plate and location collection.
OK OK I know that those are performance issues so let's go over his good points:
A. Dresses well and is well spoken for an African American (I agree with Biden on that one).
B. He has done well with fund raising for himself.
C. Ummmm..........http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3feb3ecad04a727d8477cdisenfranchised independentWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:44:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3feb3ecad04a727d8477c
Would Mit romney be a better fit? you kidding me? He's a republican.
What this poll shows is that both the democrats and republicans are incapable of leading this country.
We the people of the United states need representation, the same representation that is currently bought and paid for by wealthy individuals and corporations as a wall street commodity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fe2b6bb3f7d0218c2a5aQWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:42:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fe2b6bb3f7d0218c2a5a
Yes but Tip O'Neil actually worked with Reagan on many issues. Look at the hearings concerning the deaths of the 241 Marines in Lebanon and the pull out compared to the hearings on deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi. Also look at the Democratic response to Iran Contra, which was an actual impeachable offense committed by Ronald Reagan.
"Clinton was even impeached."
The GOP is trying to impeach President Obama, they just haven't found a reason yet.
Unlike the senate under previous Presidents, 60 votes has become the norm to pass anything in the Senate due to GOP. Mitch McConnel even filibustered a bill he sponsored. Until Harry Reid stepped in to stop rampant filibuster abuse by the GOP for nominees, many positions were vacant due to the GOP's policy of obstruct everything.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fd546da811e241e3ac7cybfmiamiWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:38:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fd546da811e241e3ac7c
Correct Headline: "Poll of FoxLies Viewers: Obama ,,,"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fd1b6bb3f7c5248c2a5aIntric8Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:37:47 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fd1b6bb3f7c5248c2a5a
Ok, Obozo shills! Its official. You can all get lost from the comments section now. See ya, and dont let the door rap your ass on the way out. LMAOhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc4c69bedd2c21e18530JavamanWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:34:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc4c69bedd2c21e18530
With the stock market at record highs, and both the budget deficit and government employment down from his predecessor, for being a socialist, President Obama seems to be very bad at it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc256da8110038e3ac7eJavamanWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:33:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc256da8110038e3ac7e
With the stock market at record highs, and both the budget deficit and government employment down from his predecessor, for being a socialist, President Obama seems to be very bad at it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc0e6da8111f39e3ac7aJavamanWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:33:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc0e6da8111f39e3ac7a
With the stock market at record highs, and both the budget deficit and government employment down from his predecessor, for being a socialist, President Obama seems to be very bad at it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc03eab8ea924c331821Doug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:33:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fc03eab8ea924c331821
Perhaps you are very young, and don't understand that both parties try to gain at their opponents' expense?
Do you really think that only Obama faced any opposition? Clinton was even impeached.
Many presidents, including Reagan, Clinton and Bush, had to deal with mixed control of government.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fb2c6bb3f7da1d8c2a5aQWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:29:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fb2c6bb3f7da1d8c2a5a
You mean the ACA that was originally the plan of the Heritage Foundation, until they decided to oppose it. Now are you saying that the Heritage foundation is socialist?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fafa6da8115b32e3ac844570billWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:28:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fafa6da8115b32e3ac84
This guy is what as known in the horse racing industry as a "great starter, lousy finisher". He's like a guy who can date and charm women, but get him past the altar and he's a lousy husband.
I will say that if GW had tried the Executive order thing with his presidency they would have impeached his butt! This is a systemic thing. Not enough real leaders, just people voting stuff for themselves. The experiment is over, just waiting for the "flush". 20 years from now the Constitution will be a shadow of what it was. Not Obama's fault, our fault. Things change, just not always for the better.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fa906bb3f71c1a8c2a5abob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:26:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fa906bb3f71c1a8c2a5a
The commenters on this website are SO....FUCKING.....PREDICTABLE........http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fa4469bedd3a01e18530doodleWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:25:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fa4469bedd3a01e18530
gee, give her a break-- go back-get your ged--expunge the last 2 arrests--- no more heroin - yes, age hurts but you do live in the country , less,no stress-- houses cost 1/10 of what north east homes cost - the children will help- they aren't going anywherehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fa0069bedd3306e18536QWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:24:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3fa0069bedd3306e18536
The GOP plan was to block everything. They even had a meeting about that after he was elected. Their plan was to make him a one term president. Now how can you blame President Obama for the actions of an equal branch of the government under the Constitution? And what is the reason for the GOP mindlessly opposing everything?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f94269bedd2806e18530Mr ThriftyWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:21:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f94269bedd2806e18530
>No other modern president has run into such determined obstructionist opposition.
And when the Socialists managed to get past that opposition, we got the ACA. I don't want to imagine what we'd get with less opposition...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f919eab8ea4f4533181fParth vWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:20:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f919eab8ea4f4533181f
Under Romney you would be back in Iraq. Bad poll.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f9186da8117229e3ac7dParth vWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:20:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f9186da8117229e3ac7d
Under Romney you would be back in Iraq. Bad poll.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f9056bb3f753168c2a5adoodleWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:20:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f9056bb3f753168c2a5a
JUMPED IN B/4 TERM STARTED TO FIX MELT-DOWN - OUT OF 2 WARS-TROOPS HOME--- ECONOMY STRONGER EXCEPT WHEN REPUBLICKS STOPPED GOVT- STK MKT UP--REAL ESTATE UP- RE-ELECTED AND HILLRAY FOR 8 MORE-- OBAMACARE WORKING- geehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f899ecad04f80fd8477cPKWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:18:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f899ecad04f80fd8477c
those on the left...please spinhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f8906bb3f711128c2a5aDave BradshawWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:18:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f8906bb3f711128c2a5a
Oh My God!!! Is your man BRETT LOGIURATO on suicide watch?????????http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f7f26bb3f718128c2a5aParth vWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:15:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f7f26bb3f718128c2a5a
Baloney poll. Just look at the public reaction after ISIS took over parts of Iraq. The country gasped in collective relief that Obama the progressive was in charge as he was not keen to walk McCain et al. That was telling, obamacare too is more successful than you think. You wanted hope and change , we'll you got it. Otherwise you could have been drafted back to Iraq and have no medical insurance. I think Obama was the single most important President in modern history, simply because he played golf while the Middle East burnt and let other Americans do the same. No more BS wars for saving other countries.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f7ec6da811c720e3ac81Mr. SquirrelWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:15:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f7ec6da811c720e3ac81
He was elected under false pretenses. There is no media investigation of his past. He was mentored by a member of the communist party and friends with a convicted terrorist. He has no understanding of economics - he thinks the purpose of the economy s to support government and government is to provide welfare, Chicago style government in Washington doesn't work - who knew?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f78cecad045003d84781CorzineWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:14:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f78cecad045003d84781
After Obama leaves office, he will be laughing all the way to to bank. Even after being impeached, Bill Clinton has made over $160 million (at least $20 million from the mega banks) for his "speaking engagements". Gore has made over $200 million by being the front man for David Blood and the Goldman Sachs Asset Management team. Obama may make even more, as he reaps his rewards from big energy, big banking, big insurance and big pharma. He doesn't care what the average American thinks about him. For him, the future is full of hope, change and untold wealth.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f7606bb3f767078c2a5bHmmmminteresting!!!Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:13:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f7606bb3f767078c2a5b
This is utter nonsense, this president has had the MSM in his backpocket covering for him the entire time. Remember gas prices in 2008 ($2.53) and the media and dem congress (Schumer, et al) screamed bloody murder. Everyday day we heard stories of price gouging because Bush/Cheney were helping to price gouge with their oil buddies. Schumer and his cronies constantly calling for investigation and the heads of oil company executives.
I'm no fan of Dems or Repubs, I see it as 2 wings of the same vulture, but I do try to see reality here and Obama is a total failure. Who is he still? No one really knows, no one really knows what he believes, one day he's for traditional marriage, the next he's for gay marriage. One day "you can keep your guns" the next we need gun control. If you like your doctor today you can keep him today, tomorrow not so much. We'll reduce your health care on average $2500 per family today, tomorrow, scratch that we knew it was all a lie to begin with.
People want to believe in something so badly and when reality hits them in the face, sometimes it's a hard thing to realize!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f6e36bb3f78e028c2a5eAlternate ViewWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:11:15 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f6e36bb3f78e028c2a5e
Why is this even a surprise. Obama has continued all of the worst Bush policies and added to it along the way. Ok, lets say you are violently anti-Bush and vigorously pro-Obama. Surely you can admit they have some number of policies the same in fact though not in rhetoric.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f6976bb3f74c068c2a5eDoug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:09:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f6976bb3f74c068c2a5e
Did you come up with that on your own?
The topic is Mr. Obama's presidency. If you think he is a successful executive, then explain why. Blaming his failings on the opposition would be included under the "shirking responsibility" heading.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f69269bedd3b71e18530bittergreenWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:09:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f69269bedd3b71e18530
And I thought it would take something special to beat George W. Bush's Katrina era level incompetence. And boy did you deliver America. Yet, something tells me you are not done yet. You'll pull some magic out of your hate, America, and deliver something truly amazing in '16. Someone who can top the levels of awfulness produced by Andrew Johnson or Warren Harding.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f67f6da811c81ae3ac7csixtyoneWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:09:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f67f6da811c81ae3ac7c
Okay, he is a smart guy and has a heckuva marketing team.
Ever think maybe he just does not like the country as it has been since it's origins? It is awfully hard to "change and transform" the country in 6 years. Lord knows he is trying and those of us who love the country must hope he fails. I do not want to morph into a Western European socialist state full of politically correct wimps.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f5676da811481be3ac7asixtyoneWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:04:55 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f5676da811481be3ac7a
You're one hell of an apologist!
Not too mention, you are intellectually weak to buy into that pathetic obstructionist argument. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people like you and thus we have a second term of BHO.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f521ecad040c7bd8477cQWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:03:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f521ecad040c7bd8477c
"He's a smart guy, and perhaps after November he'll figure out that governing is more than playing politics."
Like many in the GOP, you are projecting onto President Obama the faults of the GOP.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f4fbecad04417ad8477cBarry H. SoetorroWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:03:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f4fbecad04417ad8477c
That's right - it's not just me. I released the world's most powerful terrorist from prison - what could go wrong?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f4cb6bb3f7ac798c2a5aTGN103Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:02:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f4cb6bb3f7ac798c2a5a
Just wait to see how many innocent people die because of Obamacare.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f49c6bb3f7077e8c2a5asixtyoneWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:01:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f49c6bb3f7077e8c2a5a
Don't flatter yourself with a label like libertarian. No liberatarian refers to others as "those on the right".
You're a weak-minded jellyfish who falls for the best story each election cycle with little or no core convctions of your own.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f44869bedd2965e18535MPCTWed, 02 Jul 2014 08:00:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f44869bedd2965e18535
Where are the protests over almost 1700 troop deaths in Afghanistan since 2009? Or the 'collateral damage' of 2400+ from drone strikes? Just because no one is screaming about it, doesn't mean it's not happening and isn't any less morally egregious.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f3ad69bedddc59e18536sixtyoneWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:57:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f3ad69bedddc59e18536
Don't sell the man short. Why limit his awful status to modern day? He is the worst ever!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f391ecad04ce6cd84785faux outrageWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:57:05 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f391ecad04ce6cd84785
...and the next president will be a similar disappointment as the voters keep voting for what they want with little or no regard for what they can actually get in reality. Sorry, the next president won't turn the economy into one that allows a high-school drop-out or marginally skilled 50+ year old to earn a middle class living. The bottom 50% will continue to get hammered financially and the top 5% will do better than ever.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f354ecad047376d8477cblutownWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:56:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f354ecad047376d8477c
Along with the worst Congress and worst Supreme Court ever. This is a crisis of confidence in leadership, not just Obama.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f239ecad04dc6fd8477cDuh2.ccWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:51:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f239ecad04dc6fd8477c
No one needed to spend the money taking a poll to show this, and he is going to take Democrats gown with him in November.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f1f26bb3f7b5798c2a5atony Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:50:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f1f26bb3f7b5798c2a5a
any man who gets thousands of our soldiers killed/injured (not to mention the tens of thousands of innocent iraqi's) because of lies will forever be the worst president of my lifetime. but hey, those on the right feel free to take solace in this poll.
to sum up the major mistakes of each:
bush --> lies country into war
obama --> controversial healthcare reform
and no, i'm not a democrat supporter. i've voted for each party in the past. i find myself more libertarian these days because of how worthless the government has become.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f1d76da8113c08e3ac7dMe TooWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:49:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f1d76da8113c08e3ac7d
The poll results reflect the fact that he's double-crossed his base. He has no core principles. He has become a tool of the Deep State. On top of that, he thinks he's cool. Not cool.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f1d56da8115201e3ac7cbob3Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:49:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f1d56da8115201e3ac7c
This is a very well thought out and reasonable stance which takes into consideration the historical context and makes a fair assessment of the current situation. My prediction for this comment?: DOWN VOTED INTO OBLIVION!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f158eab8ea4a19331824Working GuyWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:47:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f158eab8ea4a19331824
These idiots are just figuring this out?? How stupid can people be?? Obama says he is a progressive liberal. Today's double speak for someone who in the 1950 & 60's would have been classified a socialist. Anyone that thinks otherwise is delusional or one of them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f0d169beddd75ce18531Doug in VirginiaWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:45:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f0d169beddd75ce18531
Mr. Obama has the tactical smarts to run extremely successful campaigns. He knows how to tell people what they want to hear, how to demonize the opposition, and to shirk responsibility for all shortcomings.
What he doesn't seem to understand is that once people get past the sales cycle and have experience with what they've bought, that's the impression they remember.
He's a smart guy, and perhaps after November he'll figure out that governing is more than playing politics.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f03ceab8eac91433182anone123Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:42:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3f03ceab8eac91433182a
Nonsense.
No other modern president has run into such determined obstructionist opposition. I'm not saying the guy doesn't have shortcomings, but the political landscape is way different than any other modern president has faced.
Plus, he is a sitting president and people need someone to blame 'right now' for their problems. I'd wager that in 6-7 years, those numbers will reverse.
I won't ever sincerely argue that Obama is the best president ever, but just like Bush W., I think he has faced some unique challenges in his presidency. Unfortunately, they both came up short in certain areas.
I'm not happy about every action or policy administered by Obama, but I wouldn't be able to say that about any president in my entire lifetime. When I step back and ask myself - could I have done better? - and the answer is clearly, no. I can't kill a guy for not being perfect in every way - which is what we seem to demand from all our leaders.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3eef46da811357ae3ac7amatrixbandWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:37:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3eef46da811357ae3ac7a
In 2008 it seemed very cool to be an Obama supporter. The hope and potential was so great. Now, as borne out by polls, it appears uncool to be an Obama supporter. When we don't really know where someone stands, we project our hopes onto them. When the reality does not match the aspirations .........http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3edf36da811397ae3ac7aCorrectionWed, 02 Jul 2014 07:33:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b3edf36da811397ae3ac7a
He is the worst president ever.
How's that "hope and change" working out for ya?
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